COUNTYWIDE: City of Wixom, Oxford, Walled Lake and Rochester Hills among those winning proposals

Oakland County voters in many municipalities and school districts answered tax requests Tuesday that will affect their communities in the next few years.

Among items on the long general election ballot were tax requests for police, fire, libraries, parks, public works, road repairs and school districts, as well as proposals to change city charters.

In Wixom, 61 percent of voters approved a proposal for a 3.5-mill increase in property taxes for four years to operate police, fire, public works and parks and recreation.

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"It was a very decisive vote of confidence from the community," a happy City Manager Mike Dornan said of the city's first request for a tax increase since the Ford Motor Co. plant closed down a few years ago.

"Job One beginning (today), the day after the election, is to plan and use the peoples' vote and money in a prudent and fiscally responsible way to ensure that world-class services we provide here in Wixom are sustained to support and maintain our world-class status as a city."

Oakland County communities asking for millage for police and fire services:

o With all three precincts counted, 64 percent of Addison Township voters favored restoring a fire and ambulance service millage from 0.7473 mills to 0.75 mills for five years.

o Holly Village voters turned down a 2.0-mill request, with 57 percent voting against the increase to continue police and fire services at the current levels.

o Oxford Township voters barely approved -- by a 50.89 to 49.11 margin -- a 1-mill increase on all property and lands to raise about $576,000 annually for two years for police protection for the unincorporated portion of the township.

School districts that requested renewals of 18-mill nonhomestead millage renewal:

Almont Community Schools lost its bid for a two-year renewal of 18 mills to raise $858,930 for operations, with 53.85 percent of voters saying no; Holly schools voters appeared to favor a renewal for nine years; Huron Valley schools' vote was 64 percent in favor of the renewal for 10 years; and Waterford schools for 10 years, with 59 percent in favor at 25 of 39 precincts reporting.

Almost two-thirds of Clawson schools' voters favored increasing its nonhomestead levy from 18 mills to 18.6 mills for 10 years. However, the vote was much closer in Brandon schools' request for 18 mills for six years, with just over one-half in favor. The millage had been rolled back to 17.95 mills.

Bond Issue Proposals for remodeling and refurnishing school district buildings, and/or technology improvements and purchasing and equipping school buses, included:

Fenton Area Public Schools' request to borrow up to $8.4 million was refused by 57.8 percent of voters; in Northville Public Schools, 58 percent of voters in Oakland County favored borrowing up to $20.8 million; and voters in Romeo Community Schools were divided, with 51 percent against approval of a $16.4 million bond issue.

School district sinking building and bond fund proposals for repairs and improvements of facilities:

Sixty percent of Walled Lake Consolidated Schools voters appeared to favor renewal of a one-half mill property tax for 10 years. But in West Bloomfield School District, 55 percent of voters were against a request for a new 1.5-mill property tax for 10 years.

City road tax: About 62 percent of Rochester Hills voters favored repurposing an existing 0.49-mill drain tax to provide about $1.4 million annually for repairs, maintenance, rehabilitation and reconstruction of roads for seven years and provide matches needed for additional funds

o A 1.25-mill tax on personal property in the Clarkston Independence District Library district for eight years failed by just 30 votes with nearly 19,000 voting.

o In Milford Township, voters opposed a request for a 0.25-mill tax for four years for construction, operation, replacement and maintenance of a community skate park.

o In Pontiac, almost 80 percent of voters were against a 6.5-mill property tax increase to pay for the cost of health insurance for retirees to raise $5 million.

"It doesn't surprise me," Claudia Filler, president of the City of Pontiac Retired Employees Association, said about the failing proposal. "I think they should treat it like any other debt they owe and come up with a way to pay that debt. They pay other bills and they need to pay this bill."

o In Waterford Township, it was a tight vote with opposing votes winning by a three percentage points on a request of 0.5 mills for 20 years for parks and recreation.

Proposals involving property and roads:

o More than 60 percent voted to give the Village of Oxford authority to sell the Old Township Hall and Oxford Village Municipal Offices, including police department and fire hall, and in Proposal 2, to allow the sale of property at 98 Glaspie.

o Nearly 57 percent of Birmingham voters opposed amending the charter to allow the city to sell property without a citywide vote.

Proposals involving councils:

Voters in the Village of Beverly Hills passed by 78 percent a charter amendment allowing a person to be appointed to fill a council vacancy within 60 days by a majority vote of the council.

Proposals involving trustees:

Holly Township voters, in a 54.7 percent to 45 percent vote, refused addition of two trustees on the township board for a total of four, which would have begun with the November 2014 election.

Proposals in southern Oakland County:

o About 58 percent of Oak Park voters in early results favored creation of a separate retirement system and trustees board for public safety officers, and a tax levy not to exceed 7 mills per year for seven years.

o In early results, more than 57 percent of Royal Oak schools voters favored a building and site sinking fund; and more than two-thirds of Royal Oak voters favored a charter amendment to allow the city to maintain its core police, fire and emergency services with a five-year tax levy of up to 3.98 mills.